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Embracing The Change: Personal Experience In Academic Unit Transformation, Hazem Said
Embracing The Change: Personal Experience In Academic Unit Transformation, Hazem Said
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This presentation will cover personal experience and case study on how academic unit head can embrace change, build an identity for their unit, and lead their faculty and staff in transforming their unit from obscurity to prominence while under budget constraints and limited authority.
The Healing Organization, Sally Robertson, Laura Edmunds
The Healing Organization, Sally Robertson, Laura Edmunds
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
How do we transform our organizations into spaces of community, wellness, collaboration, and safety? Looking at the entire campus as “The Healing Organization” we focus on human-centered leadership practices to create a better future for our departments and our classrooms.
The Chairperson : Faculty, Administrator And Academic And Crisis Leader, Domenick J. Pinto
The Chairperson : Faculty, Administrator And Academic And Crisis Leader, Domenick J. Pinto
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
For 36 years, I have witnessed the evolution of the role of chair as economic, social and student climates emerge. My workshop will summarize the challenges that chairs must now face in 2023. The session will help relatively new and new chairs observe various scenarios and discuss how to problem solve them.
Embracing The Change: Personal Experience In Academic Unit Transformation, Hazem Said
Embracing The Change: Personal Experience In Academic Unit Transformation, Hazem Said
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This presentation will cover personal experience and case study on how academic unit heads can embrace change, build an identity for their unit, and lead their faculty and staff in transforming their unit from obscurity to prominence while under budget constraints and limited authority.
The session will draw from personal experience establishing an academic unit and transforming it from a small unknown teaching unit to one of the largest teaching and research units on the campus of a research one university. Over ten years, the grassroots transformation included the hiring of 24 new faculty and 20 new staff and sustaining …
Taking The Lead: Initiating Change As A New Chairperson, Craig D. Hlavac
Taking The Lead: Initiating Change As A New Chairperson, Craig D. Hlavac
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Academic department chairpersons are often asked to lead without management training, prior experience, or formal mentorship. These same chairpersons are frequently faced with initiating change in departments that have operated similarly for years – perhaps decades. What is the first step? What should a new chair do to begin the discussion about change without alienating the faculty? This session will provide participants with practical, research-based strategies for defining the roles of the chair position, building trust within the faculty, and beginning a dialogue focused on meaningful change. Opportunities for small-group discussion as well as scenario-based discourse will be included.
Leading In A Perpetual State Of Change, Stephanie Boss Dr., Lisa Huffman, Jennifer Dennis, Mary Dzindolet
Leading In A Perpetual State Of Change, Stephanie Boss Dr., Lisa Huffman, Jennifer Dennis, Mary Dzindolet
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Three academic chairs and their dean will provide examples of how they have led through the difficult and ever-changing higher education landscape. Topics will include faculty turnover, budget cuts, and university restructuring. The audience will be invited to share their own experiences and recommendations will be provided.
Facilitating Curriculum Change One Step At A Time, Joanna Mott
Facilitating Curriculum Change One Step At A Time, Joanna Mott
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Large departments provide additional challenges when leading change. Participants will learn strategies to thoughtfully move a department forward keeping transparency, respect for all and inclusiveness in mind and identifying, empowering and guiding department faculty leaders who are trusted by their peers.
Thriving In A Changing Academic Landscape: Moving At The Speed Of Light, Brenda Sims, Christy Crutsinger
Thriving In A Changing Academic Landscape: Moving At The Speed Of Light, Brenda Sims, Christy Crutsinger
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Academic leaders are facing pressure to change how they deliver education. To respond, universities are increasingly charged with setting up educational programs that challenge the traditional notion of delivering classes. Using a case study approach, this session highlights how one university built a collaborative industry hub , developed interdisciplinary programs, and gained departmental and faculty buy-in in a sixth month window. Strategies for remaining nimble and transforming the ivory tower will discussed.
Creating Lasting Change Through Collaboration And Engagement, Marilu Goodyear, Jenny Mehmedovic
Creating Lasting Change Through Collaboration And Engagement, Marilu Goodyear, Jenny Mehmedovic
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Have you experienced difficulty moving a critical change forward and building the buy-in you need? Come learn how to get everyone moving forward with you. Real-life examples from a recent curriculum redesign project will be discussed and participants will apply organizational change concepts to a change initiative of their own.
Are Transformation And Power Shifts All Or Nothing Events?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari
Are Transformation And Power Shifts All Or Nothing Events?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper represents a qualitative case study conducted in one organization. It examines the role of power and shifts of power in an organization during an organizational transformation, a very specific form of change in which the center core or the worldview of the organization is altered.
Organizational Change? Organizational Development? Organizational Transformation?: Why Do We Care What We Call It?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari
Organizational Change? Organizational Development? Organizational Transformation?: Why Do We Care What We Call It?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper represents a literature review on the topic of organizational change. It argues that how we label a specific type of organizational change has an impact on how we both view the change and the potential outcome. The focus here is on transformational change—a change that occurs at the center core of the organization and results in substantial change to the center core of the organization, impacting the currently held beliefs and assumptions.
Web 2.0 Technologies: Disruptive Or Liberating For Adult Education?, Rita Kop
Web 2.0 Technologies: Disruptive Or Liberating For Adult Education?, Rita Kop
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult educators have been reluctant to engage with the latest second generation Internet technologies. New ideas on how these technologies could reform the structure and processes of adult education are examined in relation to Illich’s educational vision from the 1970s.
Reorienting To Expectations Of Change, Elizabeth Grigoriu
Reorienting To Expectations Of Change, Elizabeth Grigoriu
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explains implicit and explicit theoretical assumptions of change and an emerging reorientation to expectations of change by using activity and meaning making theory to uncover a more expanded, integrated understanding of our expectations of change. The purpose of this reorganization is to better navigate social interactions as practitioner theorists.